Roobarb’s DVD
Forum member
Stephen La
Riviere is putting
together a documentary on Anderson’s 60s series Supercar. The
documentary, entitled Full Boost Vertical!: The Supercar Story,
runs to ninety minutes, and features interviews on the making of the show
with Graydon Gould (the voice of Mike Mercury), David Graham (who provided
voices for Doctor Beaker and Mitch), together with Directors David
Elliott, Des Saunders, Bill Harris and Alan Pattillo, Camera Operator
Julien Lugrin, Art Director Bob Bell, Original Company Director Arthur
Provis, Puppeteers Mary Turner and Roger Woodburn, Director of Photography
John Read, Writers Martin and Hugh Woodhouse, Model Maker Bill James,
sculptor John Blundall, Sound Recordists John and Jean Taylor, focus
puller Alan Perry and A.P. Films’ Head of Merchandising Keith Shackleton.
The documentary also features Mary Turner,
David Elliott, Roger Woodburn and John Read also revisiting the old A.P.
Films studio to share their memories of working on the show, and the
studio is recreated via a 3D Computer Graphic walkthrough showing how it
would’ve looked at the time Supercar was being produced. The
documentary also includes rare archive photographs and clips including
newly-discovered behind the scenes footage.
The full list of special features is: title
sequences in French and Spanish; 3D CGI A.P. Films Studios walkthrough
with optional narration by director Alan Pattillo; Supercar in Colour!
– specially colourised footage from the series, which gives you a
chance to see what the series might have looked like had it been made in
colour; Flight of Fancy - a forty-five minute 1960s audio adventure
reproduced from the original Mini LP; Sabotage: a National Benzol
Promotion Flexidisc adventure; photo gallery with newly discovered behind
the scenes and colour stills; twelve-page colour booklet.
The release is encoded as Region 0. The
original plan was to launch the documentary at the FAB TV convention on
July the 10th, but since the convention has had to be postponed the DVD is
now being planned for a release on July the 21st. It will be available in
two versions - a PAL version from UK mail order shop 10th Planet, and an
NTSC version from US mail order shop FAB Gear.
Here are direct links if you are
interested:
PAL version at 10th Planet for £19.99
NTSC version at FAB Gear for $39.95
Stephen has kindly
allowed us to offer you an exclusive look at a behind the scenes photo
from the series which has never been published! Click
here
to see it.
Stephen is also involved in putting
together the special features on Revelation’s new complete box set of
Anderson’s show from the 1980s, Terrahawks. The ten-disc set
includes the nine discs which have aready been released, with the brand
new special features on the tenth disc running to around 2 hours.
Stephen has kindly passed on the full list
of t
herehese features (as the listings on the retailers are missing some).
They are: Revisiting the Future: voice artists Denise Bryer, Jeremy
Hitchen, Ben Stevens and Anne Ridler recall their time on the show (35m);
a Graphics featurette in which Kevin Davies discusses his work on
Terrahawks, including previously-unseen footage (30m); a Special
Effects featurette - Steve Begg is interviewed, with previously-unseen
photographs and footage; Puppets - an interview with Richard
Gregory, puppet maker; the US end credits, which have never used
seen in the UK; the unused UK opening credits - an aborted version
of the titles taken from the only known surviving VHS copy; Unseen
Footage: which includes the original Stay on this Channel
opening; and Gerryhawks – the puppet spoof featuring Gerry
Anderson, Christopher Burr and Bob Bell which was made by Kevin Davies and
other Terrahawks crew.
If any of you bought Revelation’s earlier
issues of the DVDs you will have noticed the prints that were used were
fairly battered. At the time these were the only prints thought to exist,
but Stephen managed to find better quality ones. Unfortunately, Revelation
has decided not to re-author the discs using these new prints (presumably
as they feel the cost would be too prohibitive). It’s a shame, but Stephen
has put together an excellent set of special features. The set has a date
of the 5th of July with an RRP of £69.99. Amazon appears to have the
cheapest pre-order price at £52.49 –
click here!
Warner Home Video is lining up five box
sets for October and November. Series 3 of ER is showing for
the 11th of October, with an RRP of £44.99. A week later on the 18th sees
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Series 2, at £34.99, and The O.C. –
Series 1 (which had a recent airing within the UK courtesy of Channel
4 and E4), at £59.99. November the 8th sees The Sopranos - Complete
Series 5, also with an RRP of £59.99 and a week later, on the 15th of
November, is Babylon 5 - The Complete Series 5 for £54.99, which
brings the series to a close.
Also added today are the two Twentieth
Century Fox box sets of Steven Bochco’s courtroom drama series Murder
One – Series 1 (for September the 6th) and Millennium – Series 2
(for September the 27th) Both sets have an RRP of £39.99.
Four featurettes have been cleared at the
BBFC for Twentieth Century Fox’s next round of
Buffy The
Vampire Slayer Collection
releases. These are profiles of the character each volume is dedicated to
– the Cordelia
one runs to 13m 51s, the Dawn one is
13m 14s, the one on Giles
is 11m 57s and Xander’s one is 11m 51s. Each volume has an RRP
of £12.99, and they are all due on August the 16th.
There’s some more information available on
BBC Worldwide’s releases…
The much anticipated release of The
Office - The Christmas Specials is now being listed with a date of
October 25th and an RRP of £19.99. The pilot for the series, entitled
The Boss (which runs to 19m24s) has already been cleared by the BBFC
and will presumably be included.
The magazine TV Zone is listing
November the 8th for Series V of Red Dwarf (although it
hasn’t appeared on the retailers yet). The BBFC has, however, begun to
clear extras for the release as they are showing The SFX of Red Dwarf V,
which runs to 30m46s. It will probably be at the same RRP as the
previously releases - £19.99.
Also listed as cleared by the BBFC is a
promo reel from BBC Worldwide for their releases in the last quarter of
this year. Interesting titles not known about already include: Himalaya
with Michael Palin (his new travelogue programme, scheduled to be
broadcast in the autumn), the reappearance of the Top of the Pops –
40th Anniversary release (I wonder if this is a sign it’s going to
make it this time!) and Only Fools and Horses – Sleepless in Peckham
(the last special), which is being combined with a BOGOF offer for the
releases of the series, along with a few other titles destined for
broadcast in the corporation’s autumn schedules . The full listing
(presented with timings in hours: minutes: seconds) is:
00:02:31 | BBC WORLDWIDE -
AUTUMN 2004
00:01:16 | LITTLE BRITAIN -
SERIES ONE
00:01:52 | THE OFFICE -
CHRISTMAS SPECIALS
00:01:55 | RED DWARF - SERIES
V
00:01:11 | EARLY DOORS -
SERIES ONE
00:02:44 | BIG TRAIN - SERIES
ONE AND TWO
00:01:51 | TWO PINTS OF LAGER
AND A PACKET OF CRISPS - SERIES THREE AND FOUR
00:01:45 | ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS
- SERIES 5
00:02:26 | ONLY FOOLS AND
HORSES - SLEEPLESS IN PECKHAM AND BUY ONE GET ONE FREE
00:03:08 | PRIDE
00:02:07 | HIMALAYA WITH
MICHAEL PALIN
00:01:00 | DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
- LOST WORLDS VANISHED LIVES / STATE OF THE PLANET
00:01:58 | SPACE ODYSSEY
00:01:33 | UNTITLED
00:01:51 | CLASSIC COMEDY
RANGE
00:01:44 | TOP OF THE POPS -
40TH ANNIVERSARY
00:01:16 | BRITAIN
00:02:44 | THE NAGS HEAD
This promo reel will probably used on a
giveaway disc with a newspaper or magazine later in the year.
There are also some extras cleared as well
from already-known titles.
Bottom – Series 2 has had some
Dangerous Brothers material cleared. This runs to 4m 58s (although
this was cleared last year!) and (last week) a Fluff outtakes
compilation from Series 2 was cleared, running to 28m 39s. The
release has a date of August the 30th and an RRP of £15.99.
Two of the already-listed special features
for The Forsyte Saga box set have also been cleared. The
Interviews & Behind the scenes
piece, which features on-set interviews (taken from an edition of Late
Night Line-Up transmitted on July the 4th 1967) runs to 25m 13s.
Another item, just entitled Late Night Line-Up and running to 29m
25s, has been cleared as well. As there are two other Late Night
Line-Up pieces included in the set it’s not possible to tell which one
it is with fuller information.
The
box set has an RRP of £69.99 and is due on August the 23rd.
Thanks to David Piper-Balston for posting
that Choices Direct have put up the extras for the Jonathan Creek –
Series 3 and 4 box set. These are video profiles of stars Alan Davies,
Julia Sawalha and creator / writer David Renwick; a featurette entitled
An Anatomy of a Scene; out-takes; and deleted scenes. The set has a
date of August the 2nd and an RRP of £39.99
BBC Worldwide’s release of the memorable
1981 sci-fi serial The Nightmare Man has been put back to the 7th
of February next year.
Following Julian’s report last week of
Spooks – Series 2 on August the 30th from Contender, TV Zone
are also listing a Spooks – Series 1 & 2 box set for November the
15th. It has an RRP of £59.99.
A set combining Series 3 and 4
of Last of the Summer Wine from Universal Playback is being
lined up for July the 26th, with an RRP of £24.99. It seems that Playback
may have revised their RRPs, as originally these BBC Comedy double disc
releases were set at £29.99 (as was Last of the Summer Wine – Series 1
& 2), but their recent releases have been at the lower price, which is
good news!
News of the special features for Network’s
release of Press Gang - Series 2 have been posted on the excellent
Mausoleum Club forum.
These will be audio commentaries with
Stephen Moffat and Julia Sawalha, on the episodes Breakfast At Czar's,
At Last A Dragon, Yesterday's News, The Big Finish?;
a previously-unaired Making of… documentary; gag reel; Series Two
trailers; PDFs of the scripts to At
Last a Dragon and Something Terrible parts one and two;
a PDF of the original series treatment; a PDF of Jim Sangster's Press
Gang episode guide for both series one and two; a PDF of the first
issue of Stephen O'Brien's sought-after and out-of-print Press gang
fanzine Breakfast at Czars; PDFs of some original Junior Gazette
covers; and a PDF contemporary series one fanzine review. All of which
make it sound a very juicy release! It has a date of the 28th of June with
an RRP of £19.99. For those of you that are interested in the release
Benson’s World are currently offering it at £12.99 –
click here!
Thanks to Ed Parsons for supplying the details of which episodes have the
commentaries.
Network’s complete series box set of
Ever
Decreasing Circles has again been
put back, this time to the 14th of June.
Thanks to Analogueman for letting me know
that the three-part George Cole interview, which I reported last
week as cleared by the BBFC, isn’t all destined for Clearvision’s
Minder - Series 8 release. They are to be included, one at a
time, on each of the remaining series releases. The Series 8
release will just feature the first part, Memories of Minder – The
Early Years, together with (as listed on the
ClearVision website)
a Complete Guide to Series 8 and trailers for Series 9. The
box set has an RRP of £39.99 and the individual volumes at £12.99.
The original version of The Wombles,
featuring the fabulous Bernard Cribbins on narration duty, has appeared
for July the 12th from Universal. There is no information as to what the
actual content of the release is, but it has an RRP of £5.99.
Sanctuary’s
release of The Tribe – Series 2 has again missed it’s date (it was
due today), so it’s back in the
In The
Pipeline
section.
That’s it for
Incoming,
now the changes to the
Offers
page…
For Amazon this week I’ve added Lovejoy – Series 2 at £22.49 (£7.50
off), the new A Nightmare on Elm Street – 1-6 box set at £29.99
(£10.00 off), the three Star Trek – The Original Series box sets at
£58.99 (£26.00 off), The X-Files – Season 9 box set (out today) at
£55.99 (£24.00 off), and the aforementioned Terrahawks – The Complete
Box Set at £52.49.
There was mini-update to the
Offers
page mid week to include some new titles from Benson’s World, so I’ll go
over them now. There’s a new
Cinema Club Sale
featuring Agatha Christie`s Partners In Crime at £18.99, The
Beiderbecke Collection at £15.99, A Bit Of A Do - Series 1 and 2
at £18.99, Flambards at £18.99, Lillie at £18.99,
Maigret - Series 1 and 2 at £18.99, Mapp and Lucia at £17.99
and The New Statesman - Series 1-4 at £17.99. A Midsomer Murders
and Reilly - Ace of Spies Sale, with titles at £9.99 each and a
The Brittas Empire promotion, with Series 1-3 at £9.99 and the
forthcoming Series 4 at £13.99. Some more Acorn titles at good
prices – Cribb – Part 1, A Horseman Riding By – Part 1,
Love for Lydia – Part 3 and When The Boat Comes In: Series 3 –
Parts 2 & 3 all at £12.99 (£7.00 off); The Good Life –
Series 3, Rumpole of the Bailey – Series 7 and To the
Manor Born – Series 3 all at £16.99 (£8.00 off). Cinema Club’s Band
of Gold – Series 1 and Brass – Series 1 at £13.99 each (£6.00
off). Network’s Dick Turpin – Series 2, Press Gang – Series 2
and Soldier Soldier – Series 2 all at £12.99 (£8.00 off).BBC
Worldwide’s The Sherlock Holmes Collection at £17.99 (£7.00 off)
and Smiley’s People at £11.99 (£4.00 off). The Timeslip box
set at £22.45 (£7.50 off). And finally, a few films – the Backbeat
and Blazing Saddles special editions at £11.99 (£4.00 off), the
original version of Night of the Living Dead from Oracle Home
Entertainment at £2.99 (£10.00 off) and the new Roman Polanski Box Set
(featuring Rosemary’s Baby,
Chinatown and The Tenant) at £16.99 (£8.00 off).
Thanks to Nick Beck for
posting that Choices Direct have the Stardust/That’ll Be The Day
double bill at £5.99. They also have the Steptoe & Son and The
Sweeney double bills at the same price. I’ve also added the BBC Radio
Collection’s Douglas Adams at the BBC compilation, which is due in
October, as since this has been listed the RRP has been revised to £15.99
and Choices haven’t changed it yet – they have a pre-order price of
£11.04.
dvd.co.uk have the excellent
I, Claudius box set at the fantastic price of £17.99 (£27.00 off!)
and one of the Flash Gordon chapter serial box sets – Space
Soldiers – at £7.99, which is half price.
HMV are running a new TV DVD
box set sale which includes
MASH Seasons 1-3
at £19.99 each, NYPD Blue Seasons 1 & 2 at £24.99 each, Dark
Angel Season 1 & 2 at £29.99 each and the Dune Mini Series at
£19.99.
I’ve added whole load of new titles for
Loaded247.co.uk. The highlights of which are the three film Beverley
Hills Collection at £12.99 (£17.00 off), the special edition versions
of the first four Star Trek films at £6.99 each (£18.00 off) and
C.S.I. – Crime Scene Investigation: Series 2 – Parts 1 and 2 at
£16.99 each (£23.00 off). They also have the two parts of Series 1
at that price as well, but they’re cheaper at Play (see below)! For the
complete list of what I’ve added –
click here!
Play has revised some of its
sales, so some of their bargains have gone, but new ones have been added.
Now in their Brilliant Box Sets Sale are the Stargate SG 1 –
Season 1-5 box sets at £29.99 each, and their TV Favourites Sale
has the CSI – Crime Scene Investigation – Series 1 Parts 1 & 2
at £14.99 each.
Thanks to Matt West for
letting me know that Play have the Soundtrack CD of Doctor Who – The
Enemy of the World at £6.99, this led me to find that they have a 20%
on Doctor Who audios promotion running at the moment, which as well
as old titles also includes forthcoming ones. Highlights include The
Daleks' Master Plan (CD version, as opposed to the MP3 CD version) at
£17.99, The Wheel in Space at £9.99, Fury From The Deep at
£10.99, Tales from the Tardis: Volume 1 at £13.99, Tales from
the Tardis: Volume 2 at £15.99, The Power of the Daleks at
£9.99, The Evil of the Daleks at £13.49, Doctor Who at
the BBC: Volume 2 at £10.99, The Cyber Tin at £23.99 and The
Crusade at £10.99.
Finally, Ezydvd have put up
the Seinfeld – Series 1 & 2 box set and the Series 3 box
set, both of which at $AU70.86 (currently working out at £26.54). They are
both due on Wednesday the 20th of October, which is apparently a few weeks
before the US releases. Caution is advised, in case the Australian sets do
not feature the same bonus materials as the US discs.
And that’s all folks!
Previous News entries can
viewed
here.